This hands on PHP programming course provides the knowledge necessary to design and develop dynamic, database-driven web pages using PHP version 5. PHP is a language written for web, quick to learn, easy to deploy and provides substantial functionality required for e-commerce. This course introduces the PHP farm work and syntax, and covers in depth the most important techniques used to build dynamic web sites. Students learn how to connect to any ODBC-compliant database, and perform hands on practice with a MySQL database to create database-driven HTML forms and reports. E-commerce skills including user authentication, data validation dynamic data updates, and shopping cart implementation are covered in detail. Students also learn how to configure PHP and the Apache Web Server, Comprehensive lab exercise provide facilitated hands on practice crucial to developing competence and confidence with the new skills being learned.